Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...when St. John's College at Annapolis made education history by basing its curriculum on the Great Books, it has been getting occasional inquiries from women who wanted to enroll. Last week, after years of saying no, St. John's changed its policy. Next fall, announced the Board of Visitors and Governors, the college hopes to have 50 freshmen coeds -the first in St. John's 254-year history...
Last week, after a special trial of the eight, set up by the Board of Education and presided over by Manhattan Lawyer Theodore Kiendl, the city got a verdict. Ruled Kiendl: since the Communist Party has "at all pertinent times [been] dedicated to the advocacy of the violent overthrow of the Government of the United States . . . membership in the party constitutes cause for dismissal of a teacher . . ." Therefore, said Kiendl, it was "perfectly proper" for the superintendent to ask the question he did, and it was the duty of each teacher to answer...
...players] get? They will get what they have always got, no matter how poor they may be: an opportunity for a real education. They will get tuition scholarships, and a job that will interfere neither with their studies nor with their athletics, to help defray the expenses of their board and lodging...
...volumes of Haydn's collected works. Landon (and seven other stockholders) can now survey a corporation which will gross $150,000 this year, numbers some of the world's outstanding Haydn authorities (including Denmark's Jens Peter Larsen, Boston's Karl Geiringer) on its advisory board. Nonetheless, the society's 19 staff members in Boston, New York and Vienna still limit their salaries to a $60-a-week top. Says Landon: "Every cent net goes back into the 'Complete Works...
...Walla Walla, Wash. He joined a G.E. Pacific Coast subsidiary in 1922 and worked his way up. In 1938, he succeeded Charlie Wilson as manager of G.E.'s Appliance and Merchandise Department, was elected vice president in February 1945 after serving as vice chairman of the War Production Board. Since then, Cordiner has been Charlie Wilson's right-hand man in planning and carrying out G.E.'s postwar expansion...